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Where X = "Starting to rot from the inside out as soon as we hit forty, while simultaneously watching loved ones age badly and becoming decreasingly self-sufficient, at best."

Yeah, who needs "X". I won't even bother with the "the rich" stuff, because, frankly, it's too tired, pathetic, childish and naive.

OK, my brain somehow interpreted "ESR" as "RMS", so my bad.

Slanderous drivel.

I commented on Demosthenes.

Wikipedia as a source for a highly heated political matter like this? Talk about stupid things. And keep your moronic assumptions about how I am a nationalist to yourself.

They spoke Greek, they worshipped the same Gods, they did participate in the Olympics. Everything about them was Greek. There are coins with Alexander's name where the name is written exactly as I write it today, in Greek, down to the letter and to the stroke.

And maybe do some research on what Alexander himself considered his region and himself as. I am sure you would want to respect that.

I understand the need of a state to create some kind of coherent narrative to keep itself together, but enough with this charade.

"Gosh"...

> But the ancient greeks considered them not greek. They wouldnt let them compete at the olympics either.

Says who? Citation needed.

"Alexander" ("Aleksandros") and "Philip" ("Philippos") are very Greek names though. They are composite words with very clear meanings which any Greek with basic literacy can understand, because they use "αλέξι-", "άνδρας", "φίλος" and "ίππος" every day. This sounds more clear-cut than an instance of Greeks from different regions shitting on each other.

In any case, the notion that the people of North Macedonia have anything to do with Alexander is laughable, as Kiro Gligorov himself stated.

> neither culture bears any resemblance to the culture of Alexander.

Language, to name just one, maybe the most important component of a culture.

Have you tried MSYS2? It even uses pacman for package management!

Maybe it isn't that bad if the swap file / partition is on an SSD? I actually haven't ran out of RAM since I moved to SSDs, even when I still had 16 GiB. And now there are some ultra fast NVMe drives out there.

I use VS Code because it's a great editor... but it eats a few hundred MiB of RAM and it doesn't start instantly... On a machine with 32 GiB or RAM, 8 CPU cores and a fast NVMe drive. The main window is a glorified notepad. How will it fare on, say, an SBC?

Electron might have certain advantages compared to alternatives, but this is more of a result of decades of a crappy attitude towards software development. We should not be content with something like this.

Thanks for the clarification and the info.

Isn't the whole emulator a circumvention? It circumvents the hardware which "effectively controls access to a work", which is the console itself.

Every single game of theirs is a gem in every way and I just hope they decide to make more.

Hypothesis #3: More people for professors to offload work to.

> If it rips viruses apart how do skin cells fare?

Or maybe lung cells too, if you systematically inhale spikes that have broken off.

From the perspective of the MWI there is no spooky action.

If you measure one of the particles and look at the result, you then know what term of the quantum state you ended up in, so you know the probability distribution of the other particle's results.

Nature does not need to work according to what our brains consider reasonable, but the MWI getting rid of several very weird notions makes it very appealing, I won't lie...

There's a new board by Trenz with a Versal chip which can do 440 GFLOPS just with the DSP58 slices (the lowest speed grade) and it costs under 1000 Euros, but you also need to buy a Vivado license currently.

Cheaper boards are definitely possible since there are smaller parts in that family, but they need to offer support for some of them in the free version of Vivado...

I just yesterday discovered the new S mode where you can only run apps from their store... You can disable it but you need to sign-in, after having had to work around that already during setup. They really treat the user like an idiot to be exploited, shamelessly.

The libraries where I live are seriously a joke anyway, and even if they were not, I doubt they could compete with a website where you can find monographs addressed to like 100 people, in seconds, in your pyjamas.

> If you listen to the internet, the only reason mathematical notation exists is to make ivory tower elites feel smart.

Yeah, these people probably never tried to learn math, otherwise they'd know that notation is 100% your friend and trivial to learn compared to grasping the concepts.

There are several ways in which something like this could be implemented, but I can't help thinking that one should already know enough stuff to give a good description that they might as well just write the code anyway.

In any case, only formal languages for me, please.

A first-class programming language (not an LLM) to talk to the computer's OS along with a rich library is the most important missing component IMO.

Humans communicate mainly with language and no OS provides this in a satisfactory way for the average user.

The result is users mostly clicking on signs to choose among predetermined tasks, like monkeys in a lab.

Sure, the human mind can employ coping mechanisms and maybe delay things a bit by taking care.

I don't see how this makes aging "fine" or "great" though. This is a big leap. It's probably the single biggest source of misery, since it affects everyone, and it also comes with a huge economic impact, causing even more misery.

Last time I tried to slack around with it a bit after an upgrade it didn't even run on Windows 11, and this had been an issue for many months IIRC. So...

Cool utility though.

You talk about smell tests and unsophisticated dimwits but then you just arbitrarily assume that God made it because it's complex...

...And then, what? Do we write "God made it" in a book and close the case?

You can believe in God and use common sense at the same time.

The conservation of momentum means that whatever system you devise, the spaceship would have to eventually withstand the forces related to the total dP/dt required to get the obstacles out of the way...

You could change the distribution of the forces at best but I'm not sure whether that could be enough...

It's also free, inexhaustible, and always in your pocket wanting to notify you.

> Parents don't see the harm in any of this because it gets them to shut up

My mom used to tell me this when I was a little kid, referring to parents who were buying too many video games for their kids. Those games were at least challenging and could cultivate some skills...

Life extension is just too big of a deal, and when people revolt it can get really messy. The "rich and powerful" are fully aware of this reality.

This particular protest might be an internal German matter, but distribution of wealth is not. The message should reach as broad an audience as possible.